Hi All, 

 

I am at a total loss here about what the hell is going on.
Last week, on thursday, I fire back up my unraid server, which I hadn't been using for a while.
I did a complete fresh reinstall of the USB, cleared all disks and so on.

I had it up and running, made a cache pool, set up the disks in the array, addedd shares and so on.
Copied some 700GB of data to the server, after the Parity sync was complete, which took som 10 hours or so.

During all this, the server was rebooted a few times, without issue.

Then I power down the server, and din't think more about it for a few days.
Then sunday, I power back up the server, and it fails to start.

 

It gives me the error:
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Reboot and select roper boot device
or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key
>

 

I have tried, 3 different USB sticks, same result.
I have tried 2 different computeres, same result.

I have tried to create the USB with the Unraids USB flash creator, same result.
I have tried to create the USB on 2 different computers with the flash creator, same result.
I have tried formating the USB sticks, download the Unraid zip installation, copy it to the USB, and run the "Make Bootable" as administrator, same result.

What the hell is going on?
Why am I totally unable to create a bootable Unraid installation all of the sudden ?

My Server hardware, is a Supermicro Board H8SGL-F, AMD Opteron 6380 CPU, 128GB ECC Memory.
I has been running without a problem for years, but now it, and other computeres I have, seems unable to boot ANY unraid installation ?

Are you sure BIOS is trying to boot from the Unraid flash drive?

 

UEFI boot or not?

I am 100% sure it tries to boot on the USB.
the server doesn't even support UEFI boot, it is an old board.

 

the USB device is set as the ONLY boot device.

It is ONLY unraid that gives me problems, if I flash the USB with anything else, like a windows installer, it works just fine.

Try this method

 

 

Same result, didn't work.

Okay, this is something I have never seen before.

 

Apparently my server has lost the ability to boot ANY USB at all.
No matte the USB port I'm using, or what is on that USB, it wont boot.

I does recognize the different USB's i'm putting in, but it wont boot.

I've tried to clear the bios, load defaults and just about anything else I can think of, but nothing has helped anything.

Seems I have a semi-dead motherboard, unable to USB boot

Probably some BIOS settings, you might try googling your motherboard for similar issue

Since it is an old motherboard, I would replace the CMOS battery.  

11 hours ago, Kaltar said:

During all this, the server was rebooted a few times, without issue.

Then I power down the server, and din't think more about it for a few days.

This make me think that the BIOS CMOS maybe corrupted because the battery is bad..

Nah, sadly not, the battery is fine.

3 days of no power cord plugged in, and the clock and every setting is still right.

 

I just have, for some reason, a board that is totally unable to boot from USB.
I can read from USB, I can write to USB, I can install other OS to SSD's and boot them.

 

But I can't boot from USB at all.

 

Which sadly makes unraid totally unusable for me, even though I would have loved to run unraid